The Environment Quotes

If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.

I've only done one shoot where it's modeling clothes, not like me in my environment. And the stylist, literally, I had her stand behind the photographer and do poses.

Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of a healthy human race and even very likely for its survival.

Nature is telling us that if you don't respect the environment then you are living with artificial needs and a consumerism that is destroying the very conditions we need to survive.

Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.

Sustainability: It's the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do, it's the profitable thing to do.

You cannot compare your athletic achievement to the importance of children and giving them a safe environment in which to grow up and enjoy life.

I think we have to do something about the environment and how we are polluting the planet.

There are seeds of happiness planted in every human soul. Our mental attitude and disposition constitute the environment in which these seeds may germinate.

We must all work together in order to save the environment and the world that we live in from further change.

The environment is not as 'cheap as chips', it's priceless and we all have a part to play in protecting it

If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.

I don't like being in public with headphones on. I don't know how people can do it. It seems like you're so cut off from your environment. I feel like I'd get hit by a car.

The environment is God's gift to everyone, and in our use of it we have a responsibility towards the poor, towards future generations, and towards humanity as a whole.

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

I'm trying to get across the message that don't be afraid of animals, they're just put on this earth to help the environment and everything like that.

There's something about the human brain, that it actually has a predilection towards negativity, which served us really well when we lived in an environment that was very threatening.

The whole business starts with ideas, and we're convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous with appropriate friction.

We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.

We can't impede progress in the name of environmental action that yields little for the environment and even less for our people.. and we should look at the environment as an economic opportunity.

School was a very cruel environment and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt and I learnt to cope with it.

It is a woman's business to be interested in the environment. It's an extended form of housekeeping.

My way of communicating love and interest in people is through cooking. I grew up in an environment where food was really celebrated, and that gave me the message: food makes people happy.

Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.

So much beauty in the world, so few eyes to see it.

Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.

I'm not a neat freak. I don't mind things being messy but I mind them being dirty. I just can't relax in a dirty environment. I like things organized.

If we pass on an unsustainable environment to our children we have failed them.

People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.

Mother is the dead heart of the family spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches the television.

I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.

The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

We are social beings and our brains grow in a social environment.

For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.

A necessary process for the artist is one which begins with a point of view, a reaction to the environment, to people, to whatever it is one is concerned with.

The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.

Acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions.

The revolt against one's environment is usually 'shame' of one's environment.

Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment.

It is upsetting that many people don't seem to observe what's happening to the environment, what's happening in terms of global warming, the loss of habitats and wild things.

I firmly believe that if your environment works for you and your family, it translates into a better life.

When I was on that boat, I realized the only way I would feel creatively challenged was if I totally changed everything about my environment and put myself in a storm, in a sense.

The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new environment. This is actually one of the main purposes of grilling - to get yourself outside.

I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that genetics, upbringing, choice, social conditioning and environment play a major part in which way we sway.

You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

For most of the wild things on earth, the future must depend on the conscience of mankind.

It is also vital that our relationship with nature and the environment be included in our education systems. This is not longer something cute or nice to do; it is now a singular imperative.